Results in BLC Posts
Posted by Victoria Williams on May 23, 2012
Thanks to the generosity of the BLC and the Center for African Studies, I attended this year’s African Language Teachers Association (ALTA)/National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) conference in Madison, Wisconsin. The stated goal of the joint conference was “Promoting Advanced Language and Intercultural Proficiency in African Languages and other LCTLs.” The main…
Posted by Victoria Williams on April 4, 2012
This year, I attended the 2012 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention in Seattle, WA. My presence at the convention was motivated by my interest in both literary studies and pedagogy. As a panelist on a special session on nineteenth-century flânerie in Paris, I presented a paper titled “Elevated Flâneries: Bourgeois Women, Spectatorship, and the Façades…
Posted by Victoria Williams on February 24, 2012
World Language teachers and credential candidates are invited to participate in two professional development programs in June: “Integrating 21st Century Technology: Storytelling using Digital Tools” and “Leadership Skills Symposium: Developing Teacher Leaders.” The attached flyer gives additional details about the content of each program. The flyer and registration forms are available here: EBFLP_Flyer_applic._Lead_.__Tech_.2012_.pdf
Posted by Victoria Williams on January 24, 2012
I attended the 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in Portland, Oregon, in January 2012. I presented my research about multilingualism. While teaching Korean at Berkeley, I found an interesting pattern among native English-speaking students who were learning Korean after learning Japanese. They demonstrated a distinctive pattern; when speaking Korean in…
Posted by Victoria Williams on January 15, 2012
As someone who is Italian, was raised in France, and has lived in the U.S. for ten years, and as the new mother of an American-born baby, I am fascinated by topics that explore the sometimes multiple identity crises that multilingual individuals face. What does it mean to be multilingual? What effect does it have…
Posted by Victoria Williams on January 15, 2012
Sensing the opportunity to provide a pedagogical model for the use of music in foreign language teaching, I have created activities that uncover and highlight themes of intertextuality, recontextualization, recognizability, and (re)appropriation through close readings of songs and other cultural texts to which they are linked. My activities are designed to show students how texts…
Posted by Victoria Williams on December 2, 2011
Fall 2011 BLC Fellows Instructional Development Research Projects Third Place in the French Classroom: A Separate Space for a New Beginning? Letizia Allais, GSR, Graduate School of Education From Cultural Studies, to Linguistics, to Education, the notion of Third Place has often confused those ideas revolving around identity, language, and people’s sense of belonging.…
Posted by Victoria Williams on November 18, 2011
I have been participating in the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association’s annual conference for several years now. As a Senior Lecturer with limited university funding options for attending conferences, I choose them very carefully. I attend the ones where I would learn and benefit the most from presenting papers, attending sessions, and engaging in productive…
Posted by Victoria Williams on November 18, 2011
I attended three ten-day Chinese teaching workshops held by National Cheng Kung University in Tainan city, Taiwan, on June 27, June 28, July 10, and July 24. The workshops were offered for teachers currently teaching Chinese in America. I gave a four-hour presentation at each of my three workshops on Teaching Advanced Chinese. In the…
Posted by Victoria Williams on September 16, 2011
Late registrations with an assurance of payment will be accepted through September 23. World Language teachers and credential candidates are invited to participate in professional development that Connects Teachers and Students to World Languages. Foundations for Effective Language Teaching I and Foundations for Effective Language Teaching II will be offered on five Saturdays. Topics include…